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Last Castro of Cuba finally steps down as island gripped by most serious bout of protests in years
https://www.yahoo.com/news/castro-era-over-cuba-activists-213926727.html ^

Posted on 04/18/2021 1:50:43 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

The repressed island nation of 11 million people is at a precarious tipping point, with the economy in tatters and the clamour for personal freedoms growing as more Cubans gain access to the internet.

There have been protests, hunger strikes and even clashes with police as an underground opposition movement has increasingly ventured into the open.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 202104; castro; cuba; grenada; hungerstrikes; migueldaazcanel; nicaragua; protests; raulcastro; russia; venezuela
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Ok people. What's the best way to throw gasoline on their fire? Biden won't.
1 posted on 04/18/2021 1:50:43 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Ha ha ha. You KNOW this is fake news. Communism is utopia. Just ask President Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who I learned today orders Biden on what he should do about the border. How about that? And we all thought Kamala was President.


2 posted on 04/18/2021 1:53:21 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Promise what Trump promised the Norks?


3 posted on 04/18/2021 1:54:00 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

A big beautiful Trump Casino in downtown Havana.


4 posted on 04/18/2021 1:55:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Plenty to do restoring the architecture. Plenty of labor available. They make $30/mo. Give them fifty for 2 years and cram the nation with used Fords and Chevy pickups from our nation’s salvage yards.


5 posted on 04/18/2021 1:56:59 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’m thinking penal colony for our illegal immigrants in our prisons. Free their political ones and pay them $10 per our felons/yr. Win-win.


6 posted on 04/18/2021 2:00:47 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Is it just me or does it seem like 11 million isan’t all that many people for that country?


7 posted on 04/18/2021 2:08:15 PM PDT by MachIV
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’ve never understood, all the talk over the years, about how our trade embargo against Cuba has hurt them so badly.

If communism is a superior system of structuring an economy and society, why would a communist government in Cuba need any support or trade with an evil capitalist country such as America?


8 posted on 04/18/2021 2:10:52 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DIRTYSECRET

But isn’t Cuba a worker’s paradise?

And Bernie Sanders praised how Castro instituted literacy programs. That’s a great achievement, so the Cuban people can read the propaganda they are fed.

sarcasm


9 posted on 04/18/2021 2:12:45 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DIRTYSECRET

We need to take lessons from the Cubans leading their underground revolt. Store that information away for our own use in a decade or two when we have to overthrow Supreme Leader Hunter Biden and his sidekick AOC.


10 posted on 04/18/2021 2:13:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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Remember there used to be casinos in Cuba, before the communist revolution? Is communism compatible with a “decadent capitalist” enterprise such as a casino and luxury hotels????


11 posted on 04/18/2021 2:13:57 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I can hear the liberals now, “I want to see Cuba now before it gets ruined.”


12 posted on 04/18/2021 2:14:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“We’re bigger than US Steel!”


13 posted on 04/18/2021 2:15:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MachIV
I thought the same thing, too. Only 11 million?

It looks like nobody wants to reproduce in Paradise on Earth. How can that be?


14 posted on 04/18/2021 2:16:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Maxine Waters will want to know who is behind this insurgency and see that they are thoroughly harassed.

Did they organize via Facebook or twitter?


15 posted on 04/18/2021 2:19:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Havana was the Vegas of the 40s and 50s.


16 posted on 04/18/2021 2:24:00 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Other nations don’t have the trade embargo. So only trade with USA would save their economy?


17 posted on 04/18/2021 2:26:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I thought all those wealthy communist cubans were enjoying the socialist lifestyle.


18 posted on 04/18/2021 2:41:10 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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with the economy in tatters and the clamour for personal freedoms growing

But, but, their health care system is much better than ours, says the MSM.

19 posted on 04/18/2021 2:47:19 PM PDT by libertylover (Many people who want to destroy us have bumper stickers on their cars that say: "Coexist".)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It’s nice to see the Cubans gain access to the Internet to aid them getting their freedom ironically us Americans couldn’t have any more access to the Internet and we’re losing our freedoms like grease through a goose


20 posted on 04/18/2021 2:47:51 PM PDT by Captain7seas (Don't resist, after all you will get a free shower.)
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